Planning (3 mins)

You’ve signed up to Homebase, downloaded the free mobile app, and have signed in to your web dashboard. Now what?

Get started by adding your employees under the Team tab of your Homebase web dashboard. As you add an employee, we will automatically send out an email invitation to them. The invitation will contain their PIN for the Homebase time clock, allow the employee to set their password and sign in to their account.

Your Location Settings

As you customize your settings, you’ll get a great idea of what Homebase can do for you. Use the top page navigation to customize for each feature.

Settings we recommend checking out:

Time Clock & Timesheets: Manager alerts, breaks, overtime, and your payroll period (this is important for payroll time)

Schedule: Your schedule start day

Permissions: Customize what each role level has access to (like wages, sales, and the ability to edit time cards).

Your First Schedule and Clock In (3 mins)

Now that you’re set up with Homebase, it’s time for the fun part – your first schedule and clock in!

Scheduling With Homebase

Building a schedule with Homebase is easy. This short 30 second video covers some tips and tricks that will have you up and running.

Your First Clock In

As an owner, you may not need to use the time clock at all. That said, we recommend clocking in to a fake shift so that you can understand the process your employees will need to follow each day.

Open the Homebase Time Clock app on your Square device or any tablet or computer

Enter your 4 or 6 digit PIN

We emailed your PIN when you first signed up to Homebase. You can also find it again under the Team tab.

Choose the shift you’re clocking in to

If you had built a schedule, you would be prompted to select your scheduled shift

You can also choose Unscheduled Shift if you were not scheduled for the day (this is useful when you call an employee in un-planned and they need to clock in)

You’re now clocked in!

At this point, we recommend taking a look at your Homebase web dashboard and your Homebase mobile app dashboard. You will notice that both now display your time clock information. This is exactly what you will see when your employees clock in and out

Simply repeat steps 1-3 to take a break or clock-out. Wasn’t that easy?!

Homebase makes managing hourly work easier for over 100,000 local businesses. With free employee scheduling, time tracking, team communication, and hiring, managers and employees can spend less time on paperwork and more time on growing their business.